domain mapping not working
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Hi. I’m sure I could probably find some information on this topic if I had a lot of time to search but I have 3 boys under the age of 6 and they are requiring an unusual amount of supervision and discipline this morning. Please accept my apologies but I just need a quick answer–please!
I signed up for a wordpress blog this morning (melandloys.wordpress.com) with the hopes of mapping my domain (www.melandloys.com–and eventually the content) to it. The domain is hosted with Go Daddy and I think I created the nameserver entries correctly. I paid the 10 credits with WordPress to map the domain to the WordPress blog but now when I click http://www.melandloys.com, it points to the parked page at Go Daddy. What have I done wrong? Have I just not allowed enough time for the changes to take place?
I’m a bit confused because I had a Squarespace account (melandloys.com, personal blog) and a WordPress blog (melaniejohnson.name, business website) and I’m basically trying to switch the two. The Squarespace one (www.melaniejohnsondesign.name) seems to be working properly now but the WordPress one isn’t (actually http://melandloys.wordpress.com works but I want it to be http://www.melandloys.com).
My brain is too tired and confused to figure out what I’ve done wrong, so any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Melanie -
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FWIW, I *have* read this FAQ and to the best of my knowledge, I’ve followed these steps:
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It’s called Patience. It takes time for the DNS to propagate. When I click on http://melandloys.wordpress.com I am redirected to http://melandloys.com/ (Note that the www is stripped out here at wordpress.com)
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Not only that, but if you’d done a quick search you’d find that domain mapping usually doesn’t go live on the weekends, probably because staff want to be around to support it. Check Monday.
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@melaniejohnson
FWIW the FAQs entry you linked to contains this statement “DNS propagation could take up to 72 hours ” -
I switched 2 sites within 10 minutes of each other and the other one (Squarespace) almost immediately resolved to the new site. I didn’t think it was unrealistic to expect that the other one would also be a matter of hours rather than days. I did acknowledge in my original post that maybe the problem was my impatience but since I’m getting the following Redirect Loop error message from Firefox, I don’t think that’s the case:
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
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You must have changed something. I had no problem getting the wordpress.com site to resolve to the .com site earlier but it is not working now. In fact, they are reversed: http://melandloys.com/ is resolving to http://melandloys.wordpress.com
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I didn’t change anything before getting that Firefox error message. All I did was check to see if the URL was working and I got the redirect loop message. After that, I went into WordPress and looked for the hundredth time at the domains listed to see if anything looked weird and clicked (Put blog here) to reverse what I had since the other way obviously wasn’t working. You’re right: now it’s resolving the wrong way so I’ve changed it back again but I have no reason to believe that I won’t eventually get that redirect loop error message again since things are now set exactly as they were when I got it before.
Thanks anyway.
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Have your tried clearing your cache and cookies? I have no problem getting to your blog http://melandloys.com/
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Great. Now can you mark this topic resolved?
And for future reference, you may want to link your user name to your blog as explained in the sticky, 8 Things, at the top of the forums.
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